The Loan Relationships and Derivative Contracts (Disregard and Bringing into Account of Profits and Losses) Regulations 2004

Rule 3

Subject to Rules 1 and 2, liabilities are regarded as matched with assets on a disposal of which no chargeable gain would be treated as accruing by virtue of Part 1 of Schedule 7AC to the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992(1) if the disposal were made on a date falling more than twelve months after the date of the acquisition of the asset.

(2) If—

(a) part only of a liability falling within the third condition in regulation 3, or

(b) part only of a contract falling within the third condition in regulation 4,

could reasonably be expected to eliminate or substantially reduce the economic risk of holding the asset which is attributable to fluctuations in exchange rates, the liability or contract is to be treated as being matched with a corresponding amount of value of an asset.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a currency in which a liability is expressed or which is the underlying subject matter of a derivative contract, is to be treated, if it is not the case, as the same currency in which an asset is denominated if—

(a) borrowing in that currency, or

(b) the obligation to deliver that currency,

could reasonably be expected to eliminate or substantially reduce the economic risk of holding the asset, or part of the asset, which is attributable to fluctuations in exchange rates.

(4) Where regulation 3 or section 84A(3) of the Finance Act 1996 applies to a company in an accounting period in relation to a liability representing a loan relationship there is prescribed, for the purposes of regulation 3 or section 84A(3A) of that Act, an exchange gain or loss treated by virtue of paragraph 6D(2) of Schedule 28AA to the Taxes Act 1988(2) as arising in that accounting period to another company in relation to the same loan relationship.

(1)

1992 c. 12. Part 1 was inserted by paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 8 to the Finance Act 2002.

(2)

1988 c. 1. Schedule 28AA was inserted by Schedule 16 to the Finance Act 1998 (c. 36). Paragraph 6D was inserted by section 35(2) of the 2004 Act.